Mr O’Connell explained that the leaflet states direct provision is Government policy and Aramark has no say in the establishment of the system or the asylum application process.

Ms Hanlon responded:

“As it is said on paper, this seems like a perfect argument and I’ve been made aware that the same sheet of paper, these same facts, have been released to Trinity.

“So it’s true to say that Aramark do profit from students but it’s not to say that they’re immune from scrutiny. Of course students go and look at other aspects of their business and one of those being that they’re profiting from these direct provision centres.

“And we, as I said, we have 23 students, sanctuary students, who live in these direct provision centres, here on UL campus.

“The primary aim would be if Aramark would reverse its policy or, if not, to remove them off our campus.

“Now, as I say, I’ve brought this to the attention of Des Fitzgerald. We’ve yet to have a meeting with him. I do think once we start raising awareness, we will garner an awful lot of support around the campus.”

“I’d love if Aramark actually came to the university and sat down with some of our sanctuary students and talked to them about their own personal experiences of direct provision.

“As I said, it looks very good on paper but when you hear these stories coming from people who are living in these centres, it’s completely different.”

“I’d love if Aramark actually came to the university and sat down with some of our sanctuary students and talked to them about their own personal experiences of direct provision.”

So unless they are just guessing, I am thinking that the students in question have something to say about the whole thing.

As to what a boycott can do, I worked in a large multinational and they used Aramark to run their canteen. To call the stuff they serve ‘food’ was a stretch in my opinion and I am no gourmet, but I can only imagine the slop that is dished out at DP centres is far inferior.

I don’t know what i’m missing here. If Aramark are awarded a contract by the Government, and are awarded another separate contract in UL what are the students complaining about? Aramark are a business. If the students succeeded then what about the next one that gets the DP contract? Do they get the same treatment by another group? Do we end up then with no supplier in the DP centers?

@Giggidygoo, Think of it like this, its a new wave of protest , no point howling at the government, nothing will change, however, if you hurt a private business in the pocket, the businessmen, FG favorite type of ppl, will pick up the phone and ring the minister asking him to sort it out, its hurting my business…

I don’t think there are issues with the provision of electricity at DP centres that I’m aware of. I realise I’m being humourless, but everyone seems to be going out of their way to pretend this isn’t actually a good way of protesting, since the connection is conveniently right there on their campus every day, since they can raise awareness and potentially threaten their bottom line if the boycott takes off across other campuses with the same caterer.

You can tell some Brexiteer just said something stupid about Ireland or the UK or Europe because here comes ‘My nationalism manifests as raging insecurity’ with his desperate need to validate the UK’s superiority over a country that doesn’t even have half the population of London.

ESB Networks says almost 4,000 customers across Limerick – in Singland, Annacotty and Foynes – are without power due to faults although it’s not known at this stage if they are related to Storm Ali.
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